Robert William Pickton Committed In Vancouver's Downtown Eastside

The city of Vancouver had a dreadful reputation early in the 21st century when the world ascertained that there was a serial killer living in the area. The man responsible for this, known as Robert William Pickton, soon became notorious for the crimes he committed on the women who lived in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. Often, individuals who engage in severe criminal activities have some sort of personality disorder brought about by either biological characteristics, environmental factors or both. An individual's upbringing also plays a critical role in future deviant behaviour. If one's parents show love, support, and trust, then that individual is much less likely to engage in deviant activities, On the other hand, if one's parents do not care what their children do and act like they do not exist, then that individual is much more

This man is responsible for the deaths of 49 women (MacQueen, 2010, p. 1). In fact, the majority of the women that he killed were prostitutes from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside (Krauss, 2002, p. A8). In 2007, Pickton was convicted of second degree murders of six women and charged with the deaths of 20 additional women. In that same year, Pickton was sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole for up to 25 years which was the stiffest sentence one could get in Canada during those times. During the trial in January of 2007, the Crown stated that Pickton had confessed to 49 murders to an under cover police officer who was posing as a cellmate and that Pickton claimed he wanted to reach the number 50, but did not manage to because he started to get “sloppy”. The span of his killings is from 1983-2002. Pickton was only charged with only 26 murders because the Crown did not have evidence to convict him of the other ones that he claimed to have committed (Wikipedia Contributors, 2016, p.